Martinez begins process of redrawing political district boundary lines

In the first of what will be a series of meetings centered on redrawing the district boundaries for the Martinez City Council, early sentiment has favored establishing an independent commission to create a map, with no direct City Council involvement.

California’s various county supervisorial, school board, city council and other elected-official district boundaries must be redrawn using updated population information based on the 2020 Census. These various redistricting efforts have an October deadline, pushed back from August by the COVID-19 pandemic.